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Rep. Scott’s office vandalized with four-foot swastika.

At a contentious town hall meeting last week, Rep. David Scott (D-GA) shot back at the protesters who were disrupting his event by accusing them of “hijack[ing]” the gathering. Now, Scott’s district office in Smyrna, GA, has been vandalized with a four-foot swastika painted onto his door. Fox News reported that Capitol Hill police will likely be launching an investigation immediately. Watch it:

Just yesterday, Glenn Beck went off on a rant against Scott on his Fox News show:

BECK: Congressman, how many Americans…have called and called and called, only to be treated like swine?

You know what? I’m not sure, Congressman, if you are aware that not everybody has access to a brand new Gulfstream G550. I mean, it might be tough for the average Joe, who makes $129,000 less than you do to swing by the office for a meeting in Washington, D.C. We hope you understand and accept our offer instead to use a common alternative to private jets that are so much better for the environment called the telephone.

America, you call your congressman. You call just — the congressman that represents you. You call your senator right now. Is that — there is the House switchboard right there.

Update A photo of the vandalism:

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98 Responses to “Rep. Scott’s office vandalized with four-foot swastika.”

  1. The Republic of Stupidity says:

    Oh yeah… the Tea Baggers got REAL class…

    It’s only a matter of time before something truly tragic happens.

    Thank you Rush Limbaugh.


  2. jpric15 says:

    This is just the beginning.


  3. Zimzone says:

    Cute.

    This is something a college redneck would do to a Jewish student.

    It’s really quite astounding to see how sheeple can be manipulated like livestock.

    The Right is doing what the Nazis did while calling others Nazis!


  4. The Republic of Stupidity says:

    Question…

    When someone, like Scott, finally does get hurt or killed, can POSs like Limbaugh or Beck be charged w/ something akin to inciting?


  5. DNFP says:

    Satan is smiling…


  6. Mr.Bungle says:

    Leave it to conservatives to continue to blame the victim.

    It really is crafty of Beck et al to blame the Reps and Senators for this behavior.

    “She was wearing that sexy skirt, she was obviously asking for it.”

    Despicable


  7. texasrick says:

    On any given day I’m torn as to which is the BIGGEST damn moron in the GOP Beck, Limpball, Boner..take your pick


  8. Chyron HR says:

    Cue the conservative “commenators”: “UH I BET HE DUN IT HIMSLEF CUZ HES SO PROD OF BEIN A LIBTARD NAZI”


  9. chiroptera toasterhead says:

    Perhaps it’s time to take back the svstika from the Nazis and re-adopt it as the symbol of peace and eternity it once was.


  10. ralph the wonder llama says:

    The Republic of Stupidity says:
    Question…

    When someone, like Scott, finally does get hurt or killed, can POSs like Limbaugh or Beck be charged w/ something akin to inciting?

    Oh, TRoS… you know it will be the fault of the libruls.


  11. ralph the wonder llama says:

    How long before jpreston or watchpoop show up to claim that the liberals made the teabaggers do it, by proposing health care reform?


  12. The Republic of Stupidity says:

    Zimzone says:

    The Right is doing what the Nazis did while calling others Nazis!
    ____________

    I would point out the irony of this but it’s just getting too painful.

    The true face of America: a flabby, balding, pasty-faced, middle-aged white man snarling in rage and lashing out in self-pity.

    But… YOU KEEP THE GOVERNMENT AWAY FROM MY MEDICARE!!!!

    How did we ever breed so many truly stupid people in this country?


  13. mk3872 says:

    Morons hyped-up on too much Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck and Fox News.


  14. The Republic of Stupidity says:

    ralph the wonder llama says:

    Oh, TRoS… you know it will be the fault of the libruls.
    _____________

    Battered house wife syndrome?


  15. OneCrankyDem says:

    Who will be the first to die at a townhall meeting ? How long before it happen ? DO we need to provide every Congress person with metal detectors and added Secret Service ?

    As much as I hate the Patriot Acts, now would be the time to use the section on inciting violence.


  16. The Republic of Stupidity says:

    chiroptera toasterhead says:

    Perhaps it’s time to take back the svstika from the Nazis and re-adopt it as the symbol of peace and eternity it once was.
    _____________

    Let the Republicans keep it… they seem to like it SOOOOOOO much.

    I say we reclaim the swooshtika from Nike! I hear it’s tired of being stuck on shoes.


  17. Spencer's mom says:

    Beck must be called to account for inciting violence and racism! His advertisers are deserting in droves, and impacting the wallets of those who give this lunatic airtime is the only thing they understand.

    Keep up the pressure!

    PEACE


  18. Luis Chapulin M says:

    The Republic of Stupidity says:
    How did we ever breed so many truly stupid people in this country?

    I know it’s probably a rhetorical question but… when big and tough NBA and NFL players earn 100 times what scientists, teachers and researchers earn, you’re not exactly breeding a smart population.

    Not the only cause, obviously, but I think it’s something to be considered.


  19. ralph the wonder llama says:

    I guess we should be grateful that they didn’t just burn a freakin’ cross on the lawn…


  20. Jackie says:

    Some of these comments are correct something bad will happen as was in the pass. We saw three young man leave to help minorities sign up to vote, only to learn they were killed by the KKK. Color nor Race didn’t matter as these were three good human beings. A little boy with a smile saw a lady who happen to be White as he said she was so pretty, which she was. Later that night the child was kidnapped and murdered for saying the White Lady was pretty. A woman from New York volunteer to help blacks fill out forms to vote in the South. Her name was Viola and she was White. She came to the South and was murdered. This is how the KKK gathers it’s followers and recruits more people. We’re not born with Hate we’re taught Hate. But for many young Americans you are seeing just a little of our pass and the left over old Law Makers/People who just have hate in their hearts and needed a Leader to call them out of their holes. Yes we now know this time the Leader is Rush Limbaugh a drug addicted and pervert in charge of the Republican Party.


  21. raynman says:

    so, now we’ll get the half-hearted ‘oh don’t resort to violence and vandalism *wink wink*’ from Beck and Limbaugh so that when it gets worse, they can say they tried to stop it


  22. Spencer's mom says:

    I’ve gotta think that Mittens is having many sleepless nights trying to figure out how he will distance himself, and his religion, from Beck and his racist rants.

    I don’t know many Mormons who would support the message that Beck is sending.

    PEACE


  23. StLuke says:

    Republic of Stupidity: When will the right wing media be held accountable when something violent happens? You mean like how Bill O’Reilly was held accountable when the abortion doctor who O’Reilly regularly attacked was murdered? Like that?? Our mainstream media is complicit in all of this and does little to counter the radical right foot soldiers and their corporate whore leaders in Congress.


  24. EnnuiDivine says:

    This is just gonna get worse…


  25. laprofesora says:

    The only conclusion I can come to is that we desperately need to teach critical thinking in schools and conduct voter education classes in communities. Maybe then people will be able to think for themselves when someone invokes “death panels”, and maybe even stop voting in spineless pinheads that can’t stand up and denounce the likes of Beck and Limbaugh.


  26. darnay says:

    go ahead Jackie number 20- tell it like it is !!!


  27. paleolib says:

    Nice to see man of the people Beck talking about folks who don’t have access to a Gulfstream. Considering how much psycho-Glenn makes inciting lunatic rednecks I doubt he flies commercial these days. Time to go after his sponsors again.


  28. P.D. says:

    Why hasn’t HomeLand sercurity talked to Beck? If he mentioned this guy on his program? And what ‘Average Joe’ earns $129,000 a year? How clueless can you get?


  29. LividLib says:

    STUPID
    COWARDS

    ’nuff said!


  30. barfly says:

    I mean, it might be tough for the average Joe, who makes $129,000 less than you do to swing by the office for a meeting in Washington, D.C.

    A guy who makes millions, tries to make congresspeople appear elitist. And his dumbass fans won’t think to ask him to pay for an average Joe to swing by DC. Idiots.


  31. P.D. says:

    barfly@30, Intellegence is in short supply with these Wing-Nuts.


  32. The Dogfather says:

    StLuke says: Our mainstream media is complicit in all of this and does little to counter the radical right foot soldiers and their corporate whore leaders in Congress.

    Exactly my thought, StLuke, as I watched the national news on two of the major non-Faux networks last night and both described the lunatic fringe rantings at town halls as “protests by citizens”. Until the corporate-controlled networks start telling the truth about these republic fascist party- and insurance company-instigated disruptions of healthcare town hall meetings, the average citizen who doesn’t know any better will think there really are two rational views on this whole issue. Sorta like the global warming deniers being described in the MSM and the press as having “another view” rather than as distorting the truth or telling outright lies…

    Bill Mahr is right — much of America is stupid, and on that point there’s absolutely nothing wrong with being part of the “intellectual elite” (whatever that is) and doing whatever is necessary to protect this great country and its founding principles…


  33. 1Watt says:

    You’d think that with health care being a top news item, there would be more than 9 hits on news searches for this:

    http://cbs2.com/local/health.dental.eye.2.1123028.html

    CBS did a high profile piece on the one in Wise, Virginia but can’t get a news crew into downtown LA?


  34. The Dogfather says:

    P.D. says: And what ‘Average Joe’ earns $129,000 a year?

    I can think of one ‘Average Joe’ who’s probably earning more than that right now, P.D. — only his name isn’t really “Joe” and he isn’t really a plumber…

    Just sayin’…


  35. pastcaring says:

    Now, who thinks Dingell’s reference to the KKK was out of place?

    :|


  36. Buckie Boy says:

    Fox Propaganda should have it’s FCC license revoked.

    Fcuk the Republic Fascist Party


  37. joe cantwell says:

    the airwaves operate in and for the public trust.

    they are not owned, they are licensed. if you abuse

    that trust to advocate violence on behalf of a political,

    ideological cause then you should have your license

    revoked. this should happen immediately to “fox news”.

    further, it is clear that rupert murdoch has engaged in a

    deliberate pattern of incitement and sedition against the

    duly elected government of the united states. he should

    be deported back to australia as an undesirable alien.

    ***

    thank you.

    :\


  38. P.D. says:

    I just saw a clip of Arlen Specters ‘Meeting’. This is disgusting! These old Farts are going to try kill this Bill, which could help MILIIONS of people (including children) Most of these people have friggin Medicare! This is because Barack Obama is black. They want ‘Their America Back.’ Plain and simple.


  39. Xisithrus says:

    They didnt paint a swastika because Scott is a fascist they painted a swastika because they are.


  40. Xisithrus says:

    Red is the color of fright wingers….


  41. YoungSloshee says:

    I have friends across the entire political spectrum, from the hippie-child type to the deeply conservative Christian and, frankly, racist. But one friend in particular phrased the Republican party thusly: Self-describing Republicans are either stupid, naive or evil.

    The scary part is, I have never seen a conservative that didn’t have one of these three qualities. Dick Cheney and private industry CEO’s? Evil. Congressional apologists and citizens that will gladly pass around misinforming e-mails as “fact”? Naive. And, pertaining to this issue, Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh, Sarah Palin and the “screamers”? So very, very stupid.

    Beck and Palin have no cognitive ability to foresee the effect of their “free speech” until violence is directly traced back to them, days later. Some, like Limbaugh, will refuse to acknowledge their effect on the town halls and will lap up the viewership and profits from his program like an ego-fueled dog. But, of course, Limbaugh’s big enough to be both evil and stupid.

    But, man, these town hall “screamers”… they’re ratcheting up the threats, hate speech and violence. They’re like Bizarro Americans; they figure the only way to save “their country” is to destroy it. And, of course, they’re too stupid to realize that their local actions backfire on a national stage.


  42. Mr.Bungle says:

    pastcaring,

    I think it was misplaced.

    Not because it wasn’t in all probability, wildly accurate, but because I think rising above their crap, is the better path to victory.

    Now those responsible for this crime, need to be found and prosecuted. They are criminals. That’s what we should call them. But don’t act like the other side by name calling. It makes us look as small as they are.

    I understand the anger we feel about this as well. I hate to bring up Gandhi, but he had it right. Let shame win. Anger rarely gets votes. The people will see that these idiots are wrong. And we will win the day by exposing them for who they are. But if we name call as they do, then the country will think that every is to blame and no one is to be trusted.


  43. pastcaring says:

    It would be wonderful to require every single attendant to these meetings to submit their name and address…when they act up, throw them out, and then strip those who have it, of their medicare–you know, that socialist program run by the government…


  44. Roket says:

    And to think, just the other day, the lying liar Jonah Goldberg was saying,

    “Not only is Pelosi lying when she says protestors are bringing swastikas to these town halls, not only is she suggesting that American citizens are Nazis for having the effrontery to get in the way of ObamaCare, but she’s also saying that the alleged swastikas are obvious proof that these protests are manufactured by slick P.R. gurus.”

    Here’s a link, but I warn you that it will take you to TownHall.com:

    http://townhall.com/columnists/JonahGoldberg/2009/08/07/democrats_fear_is_showing_on_health_care

    These people are stifling democracy and need to be treated as the traitors that they are.


  45. AllYouNeedIs says:

    Red is the color of fright wingers….

    If they’re so proud of their ‘red state-ness’, perhaps we just need to start calling them Commies. It’s no more accurate than calling the Dems Nazis, but you know it’ll really make them crazy.

    Sorry, CRAZIER.


  46. RUCerious says:

    Let the justice system take its course.

    Investigate, prosecute, jail these assbites.


  47. pastcaring says:

    #42 Mr.Bungle says:

    I agree with the Ghandi and the MLK approach, but they most definitely did call out their opponents and the tactics that were being used. They have shown that you don’t have to name-call to tell the truth of what is happening…but you do have to tell the truth of what is happening…that means if they are using tactics that the KKK used or the third reich used, then say it, but say it clearly. It’s not our fault that these people are using tactics straight out of the KKK-Nazi playbook, we shouldn’t be afraid to call it for what it is…

    :|



  48. Pilotshark says:

    thbarnes says:
    Thanks for the photos, Shaking my head>> pretty damaging for who ever did this and we are suppose to be the big boys on the block the only super power left.


  49. chiroptera toasterhead says:

    pastcaring says:

    I agree with the Ghandi and the MLK approach, but they most definitely did call out their opponents and the tactics that were being used.

    August 11th, 2009 at 12:22 pm
    ________________

    They were also both brutally assassinated by extremists who opposed them. Just saying…


  50. Pilotshark says:

    AllYouNeedIs says:
    Red is the color of fright wingers….

    If they’re so proud of their ‘red state-ness’, perhaps we just need to start calling them Commies. It’s no more accurate than calling the Dems Nazis, but you know it’ll really make them crazy.

    awww yes the communist republican party gop= glassnos open party


  51. Virtual Pebble says:

    Well, the witless turd that smeared Rep. Scott’s door is almost certainly a racist. Whether it’s an old-line KKK/WCC type racist or one of the recent variety that’s been showing up calling liberals and progressives Nazis is another matter, not that there’s any useful difference, although if it’s a young one, perhaps it can be redirected, or at least convinced that it shouldn’t act out.

    I don’t see any point to taking a cheap shot at Mr. Scott for getting a ride in a Gulfstream. The aircraft may either be one of the AF VIP fleet birds or it might be one of Gulfstream’s own corporate birds. Gulfstream Aero is HQ’ed in GA, and while their production operations are in Savannah and Brunswick, I wouldn’t be surprised if they give hops to anyone in the GA delegation. I expect that the GA delegation is aware of the travel and reimbursement rules.

    Has Beck checked into how Zell Miller (R-Redneck bunghole) and Saxby Chambliss (R-Peanut fueled racist) travel back and forth to GA? Oh, sorry, they’re regressives and backwards; they travel by mule. That’s why they’re always late for votes.


  52. jerry smith says:

    This comment has been voted down. Click to read.


  53. joe cantwell says:

    ***

    jerry,

    your geometry is wrong,

    so is your spelling.

    “surly”?

    :\


  54. The Republic of Stupidity says:

    jerry smith says:

    If as you say FOX NEWS is to the right and not to the center as they claim . Then surly all other televised News is totally to the LEFT
    ___________

    This sure is a silly comment.

    Logic isn’t your strong point, is it, Jerry?


  55. joe cantwell says:

    ***

    david sirota documents

    the fox propaganda machine.

    * * *

    it’s time to circulate the petitions.

    these are our airwaves.

    rupert murdoch should be stripped

    of all of his american holdings and

    deported immediately.

    :\


  56. tajohns1 says:

    Glenn Beck talking about how much a congressman makes more than an average person???? The man who recently signed a contract for $50,000,000???
    And which side is invoking Nazis and painting swastikas? The moral ones?
    Beck is a hypocrite, a liar and a loser.
    GET OFF MY PHONE YOU LITTLE PINHEAD!


  57. okie dokie says:

    Actually, the “other” televised news is more to the right,
    and Fox news is to the extreme WRONG.


  58. jerry smith says:

    This comment has been voted down. Click to read.


  59. RantingTommy says:

    jerry, you’re an idiot

    get back to us when you can form a coherent thought


  60. joe cantwell says:

    ***

    “Oh not I you think !!”

    let that be your final

    word on the subject.

    :)


  61. jerry smith says:

    This comment has been voted down. Click to read.


  62. Fred says:

    jerry smith says:
    The one that put the swastika on Rep. Scott’s door could very well be a left extremist as well as a right!

    Name some violence from the left that is substanciated and not propaganda from a right wing site.

    You can’t.

    You are such a loser and now you are angry because you lost. Grow up little fella. Be a man. Try for just once in your life to contribute to society rather than be a destrucive force within it.


  63. okie dokie says:

    How proud Ruppert Murdock must be.

    Fox News: The official network of the KKK.


  64. RantingTommy says:

    jerry smith says:

    RantingTommy says: So haw is it I’m an Idiot

    o man, gotta love it when comedy writes itself


  65. joe cantwell says:

    **

    ok, we got a “mole troll”

    and his name is jerry.

    and he’s spamming.

    time to scrub him.

    **

    thank you.

    :)


  66. okie dokie says:

  67. Virtual Pebble says:

    53. jerry smith says:…

    Joe’s right, about the ’surly’. Check spelling before clicking on “Submit Comment”, and feel free to ding me on my spelling, too. :)

    On the other hand, there’s something deeper in the geometry business. As I see it, the left/right distinction is not always useful. The deal here is that FauxSnooze will use any fracking lie and sensationalize anything to sell advertising time or space. If they thought liberals and progressives were as thoroughly uneducated and incapable of analysis as the “conservative” (or ignorant and reactionary) element is, Faux would swing their slanted coverage that way. The other major media outlets seem less crazy than Faux because they like to pretend that they haven’t lost their virginity.

    Mind you, I’m not saying that all liberals and progressives are smart, intelligent, and on top of it, nor am I saying that all conservatives are ranting raving witless fools. We’re all human (more or less) and both groups have some share of wisdom and stupidity.

    The process, however, that makes some people liberal or progressive does tend to broaden their exposure to the range of ideas and knowledge available to us, while most conservatism is simply the “natural” conservatism of people who haven’t been paying attention, who are somewhat suspicious of anything outside their own experience or what their background taught them. And at the moment, they’re very angry because they see what they thought was a given and their familiar world crumbling. We’ll have to cope with that anger for some time to come (always in fact), but we do need to assure that it does NOT become a well-spring of violence and craziness.

    While that violence and craziness is what Glenn Beck, Sarah Palin, and various and sundry others seem to be pushing, remember, they’re just in it for Faux or some other media outlet, that is, selling advertising time, or seeking attention for themselves (which is an equivalent to advertising), or both, because they think themselves to be immune to any blowback or backlash.


  68. joe cantwell says:

    ***

    #64,

    he can be proud in australia.

    deport murdoch now.

    :|


  69. jerry smith says:

    This comment has been voted down. Click to read.


  70. Fred says:

    jerry smith says:
    I said It could possibly be Left winger as well as a Right
    and now I’m called an Idiot and get back to us when you can form a coherent thought.
    So it’s some how Okay to belittle someone and call them names simply because of an observation you don’t agree with

    Because it was patently stupid?


  71. RantingTommy says:

    jerry smith says:

    I said It could possibly be Left winger as well as a Right
    and now I’m called an Idiot and get back to us when you can form a coherent thought.
    So it’s some how Okay to belittle someone and call them names simply because of an observation you don’t agree with

    are you talking about the observation that you are an idiot?

    how can I agree or disagree when you can’t even express yourself in a coherent sentence?

    if you don’t want to be called an idiot, stop being an idiot


  72. okie dokie says:

    Speaking of spelling, I butchered Murdoch’s name.

    But maybe that’s appropriate.

    I also had my lunch in my other hand.


  73. SP Biloxi says:

    “Rep. Scott’s office vandalized with four-foot swastika.”

    Very juvenile and just plain stupid. Whoever the idiot who sprayed the swastika on Rep. Scott’s office didn’t do their homework on the representative. According to his bio, he is baptist not jewish. But, that is besides the point. Yelling, screaming, and disruptive are one thing but painting swastika on one’s property is a hate crime. The media need to pay attention on how far these uninformed wingnuts will go after being programmed by the Victor Frankenstein helpers such as Beck, El Rushbo, and others.


  74. Pilotshark says:

    jerry smith says:
    I said It could possibly be Left winger as well as a Right
    and now I’m called an Idiot and get back to us when you can form a coherent thought.
    So it’s some how Okay to belittle someone and call them names simply because of an observation you don’t agree with

    hello there>>> i think it was the way you try to bring in a side that had nothing to do with it. i mean you might be right but i have to tell you that i just done see it like that and it don’t make since for a lefty to do this.
    I mean why would they?? after all we have the big bad goons squads from the unions who could just say there are from the right.


  75. jerry smith says:

    RantingTommy says:

    Why are you commenting on a incoherent statement since you can’t understand it (it being incoherent)
    And your calling me an Idiot


  76. RantingTommy says:

    jerry smith says:

    RantingTommy says:

    Why are you commenting on a incoherent statement since you can’t understand it (it being incoherent)
    And your calling me an Idiot

    It’s “you’re”, idiot



  77. Fred says:

    jerry smith, your comment is incoherent. Just like the other one.


  78. Chickenbone Bill says:

    Here in Atlanta we’ve got our own Beck/Rush type loudmouth!
    Neal Bbbbbbbbooooooooooooooorrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrtttttttttzzzzzeee!
    Prounounced exactly like the noise made when one’s butt cheeks expell gas!
    This high-school educated only galoot, parrots all the other right-wing gasbags, as an original thought has never entered that bald head of his!


  79. RantingTommy says:

    Chickenbone Bill says:

    Here in Atlanta we’ve got our own Beck/Rush type loudmouth!
    Neal Bbbbbbbbooooooooooooooorrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrtttttttttzzzzzeee!
    Prounounced exactly like the noise made when one’s butt cheeks expell gas!
    This high-school educated only galoot, parrots all the other right-wing gasbags, as an original thought has never entered that bald head of his!

    the irony is, most of his listeners avoid the city of Atlanta because it has black people in it

    most of his listeners live out in the sticks, the city scares them (like most things)


  80. pastcaring says:

    chiroptera toasterhead says:

    They were also both brutally assassinated by extremists who opposed them. Just saying…

    True…but who gives a $hit about the people who assasinated them now? MLK and Ghandi, (albiet in death), and their ideas have gone the distance…the trick is to use the wingnuts tactics against them, but in a deft manner like Ghandi & MLK…I’m not down for being a sitting duck by any means, but I’m not for any means necessary if it makes me like my enemy…

    I appreciate your post…

    :|


  81. pjkool says:

    The Republican party has been taken over by fascists. They are not interested in debate, they are only interested in getting out their own paranoid talking points and not allowing anyone with a different viewpoint to speak. These people are modern day Brown Shirts, encouraged by a political party that now consists of a racist underclass interested only in installing a regime of Christian totalitarianism. The Democratic leadership needs to hold the Republican leadership accountable for this unpatriotic breakdown of order in their party. Americans died in WWII fighting the same brand of fascism in Europe. We can’t allow these people to plunge the United States of America into chaos.


  82. EugeneDebs says:

    Sorry Jerry but you are CLEARLY an idiot. Your post was absolutly incoherent and none of that is our fault. Pointing it out was a kindness to you so you will know how bad you are embarassing yourself.


  83. Leftside Annie says:

    Actually, Jerry, it’s because your alleged “observation” is just plain stupid and inflammatory —ooops, is that too many syllables for you?

    Base your “observations” in FACTS and you’ll get a fair hearing. Otherwise, let the rapturing of your posts commence!


  84. majii says:

    This is not unusual in GA. During the presidential campaign someone went into a north GA community where a lot of minorities live, and placed flyers in every mailbox warning of what would happen to immigrants, LGBT persons, and minorities if Obama became president. There have been numerous racists words and signs written/placed on Jewish and Muslim organizations and schools here. Less than 30 miles away from where I live the KKK had its’ first rally in middle GA in 20 years during the presidential campaign. Plus there are two branches of the League of the South located close by: one in my city and another in a town 20 miles away. Atlanta, Athens, and Macon are very blue, but the rest of the state is blood red.


  85. wiley says:

    This is a strange turn in the history of the swastika and vandalism. Now it’s a wild-eyed accusation. Ironically, it loses power for skin-heads and other neo-nazis when used this way. Also, this one is rounded, rather than being straight lines. Strange.

    Why is it that people like Jonah Goldberg, with a totally crackpot thesis, manages to be not only insanely influential, but almost immediately hidden in his influence as if the idea that fascism is liberal is common knowledge?


  86. Levi the Dungbeetle says:

    I think the curvy swastika is probably because the people that drew it don’t really know much about it. They are fascists, but they have not adopted the swastika as their symbol, because it is so widely hated in America.

    American fascist Republicans do not label themselves with swastikas, they label anyone that opposes them with them. They are still displaying the swastika, but they don’t see themselves as fascists.


  87. Cats r Flyfishn says:

    Yeppers… we have returned to the hay day of the KKK.


  88. Zooey says:

    The Weakly Standard says that it’s “likely” the swastika was faked by one of Rep Scott’s supporters.

    Must be true, right? :-D


  89. dasm says:

    Repub idiots (Beck included), waving their swastikas everywhere lately, totally demean Jewish people & all their families went through in the war. Comparing Obama & other Dems to Hitler/Nazis must be gut-wrenching for Jewish people, as they see the horrors that were inflicted on them trivialized & mocked by Republicans. It’s disgusting.


  90. jerry smith says:

    I have a very good friend that works beside me a die hard Republican. We talked on the subject of Scott’s office being
    vandalized since that’s what was the big news earlier today.
    He made a statement about how it was probably just some left wing extremest. I told him I really didn’t think so but yes it was possible especially if they were trying to make the Right look like a bunch of asses.
    I came on this website to get more information or really some neat little come backs on the subject because I’m sure we’ll be talk more on the subject. The two of us often have heated debates but yet we stay the best of friends. He is what he is I am what I am We have agreed to disagree

    While here just trying to stir the pot a little bit, try and get a good conversation going like my friend and I have I was called an Idiot countless times and apparently I’m incoherent (but yet they understand enough to comment) also my poor English and typing skills pointed out to me several times.
    If only I was as perfect as you all I would be able to see that you guys are all alike the left and the right are the same.Name calling, hate mongering we’re so great they’re so stupid. Yep the same.
    The truth of the matter is there is a large group in the middle they’re not right or left but what ever side they lean toward that’s the side that will take office.

    In less than two years we vote again and many of those Idiots,Teabaggers,morons,traitors,and what ever else you call them are people in the middle and they might not lean toward the left this time.
    I’ve been an U.S. citizen for almost six years now and am proud of it.

    My question is why the two party system can’t these men and women stand on their own??


  91. PSzymeczek says:

    Spencer’s Mom Says:
    I don’t know many Mormons who would support the message that Beck is sending.

    Mormons are racist like you would not believe.


  92. EugeneDebs says:

    jerry smith says:

    You are an idiot. You keep whining that while you are acting like an idiot. We call you an idiot. Stirring the pot is being a troll. It is NOT getting a good conversation going and only a moron like YOU would think it is.

    Here is another example of you being breathtakingly stupid

    and many of those Idiots,Teabaggers,morons,traitors,and,and what ever else you call them are people in the middle
    >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

    Those people ARENT in the middle. Only a brainwashed moron like YOU would think they were.


  93. PSzymeczek says:

    Virtual Pebble -

    Check this out. thew racist f**k who painted the swastika left this letter:
    http://twitpic.com/djjlb
    Included an address label. The FBI should be on this guy’s doorstep.


  94. Virtual Pebble says:

    97. PSzymeczek sez:…

    Assuming it’s the real deal, it’s astounding. Address and phone number. All the Capitol Police has to do is send the bigoted doofus a fax telling him the Feds are coming to take him away. He’ll probably leave a trail of crumbs out of his door.

    Don’t discount the possibility of a false flag disinformation gambit, though. One document doesn’t prove anything; it’s just an initial point in a trace.


  95. regibbons says:

    Maybe he put the swastika there himself to show his allegiance to the Facism and Socialism the Democrat party now represents? Since the bill has been proven to have language in it to remove a persons choice in health care insurance, I would think all Democrats would be against it, since they are they party of pro-choice. Although, on the other hand, it has also been shown that they are only pro-choice when one chooses as they deem appropriate. Like when a pregnant woman chooses to have a baby she is obviously just a farm for degenerate rednecks, where as a pregnant woman decides to have a hole drilled into her fetus’ head, the brain spun like a scrambled egg and then sucked out with a vacuum tube – the corpse to follow – she is a strong and empowered woman. I get it.

    For all of you who are saying the Republicans lost and should get over it, what happened to the importance of listening to the minority that you were preaching when the Republicans were in power?


  96. EugeneDebs says:

    regibbons says:

    Maybe you are such a bone ignorant punkass troll you believe things as stupid as that. Then again OF COURSE you do. Morons like you DEFINE stupidity. You KNOW you are stupid. That is why you only thing what Rush TELLS you to think. The one thing you know on your own is that you will always be far too stupid to ever think for yourself. Do the planet a favor and dont breed. The last thing our genepool needs is further corruption from your monumental stupidity. You are a moron. You will always BE a moron. So keep showing just how stupid you are because I just LOVE to laugh at people as stupid as you



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